Integrated Care Coach

humana; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana in Louisville is seeking a Care Coach to provide proactive, patient-centered care coordination and social needs support for our highest risk top 5% patients. You will serve as the primary contact, coordinating with primary care, specialists, pharmacies, and community providers to close care gaps and reinforce care plans.

This role involves home visits, patient education, cultural competence, and reporting to a Care Integration Team Manager.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of ambulatory, primary care, or senior-care direct patient care
• Ability to discuss chronic conditions and reinforce medications
• Comfort with home visits and community outreach
• Experience with patient education, care coordination, and social support for high-risk or geriatric patients

Responsibilities

• Conduct structured patient interviews and collect health and social data.
• Perform home visits to assess living conditions and safety.
• Identify barriers to care and connect patients with community resources.
• Deliver chronic disease education using approved materials.
• Coordinate care among patients, primary care, specialists, and pharmacies.
• Support care transitions and follow-ups to close gaps.

Skills

Ambulatory care experience

Patient education

Home visits

Care coordination

Bilingual in English/Spanish/Creole

Education

LPN/LVN license or MA certification

RN license or equivalent

Job description

Become a part of our caring community

The Care Coach provides proactive, patient centered care coordination and social needs support for the highest risk top 5% patient membership. You will serve as the primary contact for patients and focuses on care coordination, adherence coaching, healthcare navigation, transitions of care and reinforcing care plans. You will report to a Care Integration Team Manager within the CenterWell and Conviva Primary Care organization.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Clinical Screening & Escalation: Conduct structured patient interviews and collect health-related information (e.g. medication regimen and barriers to adherence, social barriers, functional status.) Document and share findings with providers.
• Outreach and Home Visits: Perform home visits to observe living conditions, identify safety concerns, and review environmental or social factors impacting engagement.
• Social Needs support: Identify barriers to care, address immediate social stressors, and connect patients with appropriate community-based resources.
• Chronic Disease Education: Deliver culturally appropriate education using approved materials to reinforce provider and pharmacist recommendations for chronic disease management.
• Care Coordination: Serve as a liaison between patients, primary care, specialists, pharmacies, home health, and community providers. Support care transitions, coordinate follow-up, and facilitate communication across care settings to close care gaps. Partner closely with the primary care provider to create care plans and priority action items.
• Post‑Hospital and Emergency Department Follow‑Up : Conduct timely follow-up after hospitalizations and emergency department visits to support safe transitions. Review discharge instructions, schedule/confirm follow-up appointments, verify patient reported medications and elevate discrepancies to providers.
• Community Engagement: Encourage and support patient connection to community-based programs that reinforce health goals, including initial engagement when appropriate.
• Cultural Competence: Deliver patient centered, culturally sensitive care that respects patients' beliefs, preferences, and social context.
• Develop a holistic understanding of patient needs via a 5Ms framework (What M atters Most, M ind (Mentation), M obility, M edications, M ulti-complexity) and identify barriers impacting health outcomes.
• Prepare, participate and discuss patients during High‑Risk Rounds

Required Qualifications

• Healthcare professional with 3+ years of Ambulatory, Primary Care, or Senior‑Care experience with direct patient care
• Ability to discuss chronic conditions and reinforce medication instructions
• Comfortability to regularly conduct home visits and community-based outreach
• Demonstrated experience in patient education, care coordination, and social support of high-risk or geriatric populations

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Unrestricted LPN/LVN license or MA Certification
• Licensed or Unlicensed Medical professional with equivalent foreign Registered Nurse (RN) or Physician license
• Market Dependent: Bilingual in English, Spanish and/or Creole with the ability to read/write/speak in both languages
• Experience in care coordination, case management, population health and/or value-based care models
• Experience conducting post‑hospital/ED follow up with appropriate escalation
• Familiarity with Medicaid, Long‑term Care, and HCBS programs
• Experience working with seniors and medically complex populations
• Prior home visit experience and knowledge of field safety practices

Use your skills to make an impact

This role has a mobile presence, involving travel to patients' homes, healthcare facilities, community-based settings, and assigned clinics.

Workstyle: Combination of clinic-based and field work (expect average of 2 days per week in-center, and 2 days per week in-home)

Location: Must reside in designated market area

Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM; overtime may be required

TB Statement

This role is considered patient facing and is part of Humana's Tuberculosis (TB) screening program. If selected for this role, you will be required to be screened for TB.

Driving Statement

This role is part of Humana's driver safety program and therefore requires an individual to have a valid state driver's license and are expected to maintain personal vehicle liability insurance. Individual must carry vehicle insurance in accordance with their residing state minimum required limits, or $25,000 bodily injury per person/$25,000 bodily injury per event /$10,000 for property damage or whichever is higher.

Interview Format

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